LAST EDITED ON 02-23-12 AT 11:54 PM (EST)Without getting into OT territory: it's certainly possible for a gay individual's fiscal and other assorted social politics (at least as applied to those outside your groups) to coincide with that of the GOP. And to that extent, that person would be a Republican. However, in the current party model, it is impossible to tell the rest of the field 'I am a true conservative' without being defenestrated, frequently literally, because that party has a large part of their current design around repressing you out of existence. So in that sense, to openly announce oneself as a gay Republican is to ask for full membership in a group that isn't going to provide it. But they will take your vote.
Self-hatred does come into some politics. And politicians. Examples are best kept to PM.
(ETA: Sexuality may not equal politics, but politics are often used to repress sexuality -- on a personal level. As in 'I can't be gay! I just hosted a Santorum fundraiser!' Sort of on the if-I-pray-hard-enough-it'll-go-away level, only with extra bullet points. Obviously not Colton's category.)
Pursuit. Of. Happiness. And now we drop it, right?